Welcome to Episode #3, Season 2026, of Don’t Waste a Good Recession. Here’s a fun (slightly weird) fact: Most of the world’s tallest buildings open… during recessions. The Empire State Building: opened during the Great Depression. The World Trade Center: early 1970s downturn. The Petronas Towers: Asian Financial Crisis. The Burj Khalifa: Global Financial Crisis....
How do we own the uncertainty? Stephen Covey's Circles of Control framework helps small business owners focus on what they can control, influence, and choose to be concerned about during an economic downturn.
Welcome back, to the first episode in the 2026 Season of Don’t Waste a Good Recession. For those unaware, I spent many years 2008-13 travelling the world delivering presentations on responding to the Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession, and then also helped businesses through the Coronavirus Recession with this key message: You can Thrive,...
Source: The AI Journal by Jacob Aldridge Last month newsletter subscribers were sent some of my current thoughts on AI applications in mid-sized businesses (sub 100 employees); the AI Journal asked me to expand some more and create this article for their publication. Entrepreneurs who love to “move fast and break things” are well aware...
This week I decided to throw a grenade into an accounting group that made the mistake of welcoming me as a member. And I’m going to expand on my thoughts here, because they’re important to every business that has an accountant – which I hope it all of you, because you need an accountant long...
For those of you following my family’s nomadic wanderings, tomorrow we fly from Spain to Tunisia. I never studied Ancient History, so I was surprised to learn that (1) Spain was first colonised by the Carthaginians, who were ultimately wiped out by the Romans, and that (2) Carthage was based in modern day Tunis, Tunisia....
